Working with plain text

Before the iPhone era, I was intrigued and was actively writing plain text notes in Notational Velocity. There’s something about using a Mac as a natural extension of your thoughts. When iPhone came along my most used third-party app was first Evernote and then Drafts, I still use Drafts, but only as a scratchpad for things I am about to post somewhere. Then Obsidian appeared out of nowhere along with other similar apps like Craft, and Ulysses. A term that describes these apps is Personal Knowledge Manager (PKM). I also should mention a modern take on Notational Velocity which is in the later stages of development. Lately Obsidian was the app I used the most. But I never could tolerate the iOS client and the Mac version is becoming increasingly worse and bloated. Obsidian is a wonderful concept but it remains an Electron application. It would never feel like BBEdit and MarsEdit.

I began part-time work on LinkEdit on 18 May 2021. Yesterday I have shipped version 1.3. I’ve been using 1.3 for the past month and for me, it is good enough now so I don’t need to open Obsidian any more. Finally, the app offers latency-free performance and I trust it with my thoughts. The editor is still very much basic and far from other Markdown editors. And it is still a Mac-only app. But this version is something I am proud of very much. I hope it can be a foundation and if more people find it useful, I will continue to work on it. Please try LinkEdit and tell me what you think.

I am also glad that I was able to figure out how to bring window tabs back and will be sharing SwiftUI things I learned here with “developer” tagged posts.